Wow. Our digital footprint. We know… but do we really know?

Today's trial evidence (last witness before the State rested) in the Murdaugh murder case (powerful South Carolina family as victims and suspect) -What it looks like when law enforcement puts together a timeline integrating all of a suspect's (Alex Murdaugh) - and his alleged victim's (his wife and youngest son), among others -data from

• vehicle's OnStar,

• GPS location data from multiple sources (phone, OnStar, vehicle manufacturer);

• phone data (including deleted texts - both sent and received - and phone calls);

• videos;

• emails;

• phone logs;

• estimated number of physical steps taken (iPhone);

• other data from the phone carrier - including data deleted from various phones;

• vehicle manufacturer info (speed, car starting, stopping, exact route, idling time, when fob is nearby even without being activated by holder);

• data from license plate readers;

• internet searches;

• and otherintrusive tracking informationfrom victims, suspects, and whomever any of them were in contact.

Privacy as we one knew it, and as protected by our Constitution, is no more (at the moment).

The reach/overreach is quite stunning:

Testimony of activity-timeline compiler:

>> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EU0NBRej6D4

PDF of condensed timeline entries around time of murder found here:

>> https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/postandcourier.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/6/2b/62bdba22-aefb-11ed-a88c-538e3291ccb1/63efd9a2ea409.pdf.pdf

[Both "pdf"s at end are needed.]

From: https://www.postandcourier.com/murdaugh-updates/live-sled-agent-in-alex-murdaugh-double-murder-trial-lays-out-timeline-from-day-of/article_02290d68-ab9c-11ed-86ea-db8bdaac958b.html

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Zeroing in on the apparent killer (lawyer from a South Carolina dynasty family)…

-But at what cost?

Age old privacy-balancing question. Same principle behind Miranda rights reading requirement:

-If a bad guy is caught but his Constitutional rights were trampled in the process, he gets to walkbecause our Constitutional protections(e.g., against unreasonable search and seizure, among other things)trump getting the bad guy at all costs.

The information-gathering tools used in this case, though, are, for the most part, not law enforcement tools (i.e., not the "State").

They areprivate company tools- gathering all of this information - usually unknowingly (other otherwise ignorantly) consented to by the user - which is thensubpoenaed by law enforcementupon a showing of probable cause (for one of the persons involved in the disclosures). Then all things present - not just that which is deemed by a neutral party to be reasonably relating to the probable cause establised - gets turned over for strangers (law enforcement, experts, here the whole world through broadcasted trial) to sift through and publish at will.

Sure looks like "the State" has access to (if they didn't actually design it, e.g, the "Patriot's" Act) an end run around Constitutional protections against intrusions "by the State."

Constitutional privacy protections were revered and fiercely defended by the Greatest Generation (WWII), their ancestors and their children.

=Then the next two generations were brainwashed into mindlessly repeating, "I don't care what they're gathering. I've got nothing to hide."

Sad.

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

-Goethe

"But freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it and then hand it to them with the well taught lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don’t do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it once was like in America when men were free.""

• President Ronald Reagan (40th President of the USA)